A convicted felon from Lewiston who fired shots at the father of his girlfriend’s children has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison.

Jerome Hudson, 44, formerly of Danvers, Massachusetts, was sentenced Monday by Judge Jon Levy in U.S. District Court in Portland after pleading guilty on June 11 to a charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition.

Hudson got into a verbal altercation with the father of his girlfriend’s young children shortly before 8 a.m. Jan. 13 at a townhouse at the Hillview public housing complex in Lewiston, where the father stopped by nearly every morning to help the children board the school bus, according to a prosecution document filed with the court.

“At the time, the Defendant was armed with a 9mm handgun which he fired three times. The shooting left behind four spent shell casings at the scene. The Defendant fled the scene on foot wearing no shoes, but later hid from the police for several hours in a neighbor’s townhouse where he was given running shoes before he fled again,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Darcie McElwee said in the court filing.

While Hudson was still in hiding, police searched the townhouse that he shared with his girlfriend and discovered 38 rounds of ammunition, including some that matched the shell casings left on the ground outside, McElwee wrote.

When police arrested Hudson several hours later, he no longer had the handgun used in the shooting and told police, “You guys have my ammo, and that’s all you’re getting. You won’t find the gun,” court records state.

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Hudson later confessed to police that he committed the shooting and dropped the gun down a storm drain near the Hillview complex. The gun was never recovered, McElwee wrote.

Prior to Hudson’s arrest in connection with the shooting in Lewiston, he had previously been convicted in Massachusetts of several assaults, drug possession, unarmed robbery, armed assault and armed assault to rob someone, according to court records. Those convictions extend from 1996 to 2011.

Hudson faced an enhanced sentence under federal law as an armed career criminal requiring a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Levy also sentenced Hudson to serve five years of supervised release after completion of his prison term.

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